In the center of the crown was inlaid with an arrow-shaped rune stone that shimmered with an ominous red light, and after the crown returned to the bloodstone pedestal, the calm blood basin began to boil, and deeper, in the holy chamber connected to the bloodstone octagonal altar, the metal ore excavated by the rats began to slowly transform into the bloodstone, and the blood in the blood basin began to gradually decrease.

"I feel the vitality of the Holy Stone."

The Rat King the Horned Stared at the Blood Stone above the crown, speaking in Noxian.

"He has brought us wisdom, he has given us strength, he has brought us abundance, and now he has given a new revelation."

"Speak, my king, and hear, servant."

Without looking up, the one-horned priest replied in Noxian.

"The second sacred stone is not far from us, in the body of some human who has invaded underground."

The Rat King's voice was low and majestic, and even his expression was the same as that of a human.

"Find that human and get the second sacred stone, so that we can respond to His gift and gain greater power."

It wasn't until the bloodstone gate closed again that the one-horned priest got up from the ground and slowly left the sacred altar.

Outside the altar, the high priest came out of the altar, and the rat man priest hurried up to meet him.

"Lord Priest, what instructions does the Rat King have?"

……

The two waves of impact launched by the nezumi were finally blocked by the soldiers of the Emerald Leader, and after the tension, the surviving warriors cheered a few times.

Before the boiling blood, the Noxian Black Guard evacuated the battlefield ahead of time, ensuring that sanity was not completely lost.

In the open terrain, even with the improvised defenses set up in advance as a buffer, the soldiers of the Emerald Territory still suffered a lot of casualties, at least in Lester's opinion, he suffered more than a dozen casualties when he was prepared, which was already a big failure.

But thinking about it the other way, the Valoran continent is different from the previous life after all,

In the previous life, the modern army relied on advanced automated weapons and military command systems, focusing on zero combat damage and high lethality, after all, it is still in the era of cold weapons, even Piltover, who invented the Hextech gun, has not yet been born, and gunpowder weapons have not appeared.

It is difficult to avoid casualties in a chaotic battle with a sword alone, and the demon-breaking attribute of the magic steel crossbow arrow itself makes the accompanying mages lose the effect of using magic to defend against attacks, and life and death depend on the instinctive reaction and luck of the soldiers.

Thinking of this, Lester was a little relieved, but he still felt a little hazy about the inexhaustible red-skinned demon rat in his heart.

It's not a happy thing to be in the dark.

"Establish a defensive base here, and the exploration operation will continue when it stabilizes here."

Ordering the mage to block the other two passages outside the rat hole with magic and placing magic guards, Lester and Meredith walked out of the mine, while Margaret would be in charge of the defense of the underground stronghold, and could not leave for a short time.

Fortunately, for Margaret, Lester is absolutely at ease.

"This war will take a long time to end, and judging from these few encounters alone, these red-skinned rats don't care about their own casualties at all, Ms. Meredith, do you know what that means?"

Noticing the man's heavy tone, Meredith said softly.

"Does that mean that the underworld is bigger than we think?"

Nodding appreciatively, Lester looked at the bright moon in the sky.

"The premise of fertility is to have a stable and sufficient supply of food and housing, and the underground biome below the Shining Silver Mountains must be very complex, as the overlord of it, the red-skinned mouse can obtain sufficient food resources by plundering other creatures, so that the mother mouse can give birth to offspring unscrupulously and provide a steady stream of soldiers for the rats.

Perhaps every time the rats attack us, they are just a product of their overpopulation, this ...... Outrageous, right? ”

Nodding, the female mage agreed.

"It stands to reason that there shouldn't be this group of mutated mice, what is the problem......

Trying to recall the relevant information about the Nokmoch Plains in the game in his previous life, Lester found that in addition to heroes, some equipment, or scattered background stories and historical events, he was still in a state of ignorance about many things in the Runetera Continent.

This is why she likes to explore background stories, and she often tells herself some interesting stories, otherwise she would be even more ignorant now.

It seems that in the future, Noxus wants to invade Demacia by buying Nokmoch, and at that time the country of Nockmoch will become relatively barren, and there will even be homeless people who can't eat......

Putting aside the problems of the rulers themselves, land degradation is likely to be an important factor.

And at present, it seems that the Nokmoch Plain is quite rich, and the land has become barren Could it be related to the sudden appearance of rats underground, how did the Nockmoch Kingdom deal with the mice underground at that time? ’

After a moment's silence, Lester's emotions were a little complicated.

Obviously, the native of Mombia, who created the kingdom of Nokmoch, would not do any better than himself, an outsider from the era of civilization, so it can only be guessed that the decision-makers of the kingdom of Nokmoch chose to avoid the underground creatures of the Shining Silver Mountains, and the underground creatures did not expand to the surface according to a certain rule.

At this moment, this balance has been broken by himself.

However, he did not regret this, because he obtained the oralcose.

Any kind of power that can make the Emerald Collar stronger or that he can control must be held in his hands as much as possible, this is his ultimate goal in the Rune Continent.

Whether it's the Darkspawn, or the Star Spirit, or the Underworld, or the Void,

He has his own pride, he will not allow himself to submit to any powerful force again, and naturally needs the strength to contend with it.

Since yodelers can live forever, Lisandro who trades with the Void can survive for thousands of years, and even LeBlanc can use forbidden black magic to achieve immortality, why don't you try to find a way to keep yourself alive, escape the shackles of time, and see the future world with your own eyes?

Not knowing that the man was more determined in his ambition at this moment, the female mage thought about it, and still cautiously tested.

"I wonder if Lord Lester has ever heard of the World Rune?"

Naturally knowing what the world runes were, Lester secretly laughed in his heart.

When I played the game before, every time I chose a hero, I still clicked the runes by myself......

Wait, World Runes?

This world-changing power is enough to change the landscape and life forms, right?

Lester's face changed suddenly, and he turned to look at Meredith solemnly, which startled the female mage.

"You're saying that the thing that affects the rats in the underground is the world rune?"